Since day before yesterday I am seeing strange cron behaviour on my up to date FC5 desktop pc, reported in the cron log as follows: May 8 23:01:01 localhost crond[4077]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 9 00:01:01 localhost crond[4398]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 9 09:36:31 localhost crond[2061]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) May 9 09:36:32 localhost anacron[2099]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2006-05-09 May 9 09:36:33 localhost anacron[2099]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 65 min. May 9 09:36:33 localhost anacron[2099]: Jobs will be executed sequentially May 9 10:01:01 localhost crond[3017]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 9 10:41:32 localhost anacron[2099]: Job `cron.daily' started May 9 10:41:32 localhost anacron[3304]: Cannot run - another anacron process is already running.: Resource deadlock avoided May 9 10:42:02 localhost anacron[2099]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing output) May 9 10:42:02 localhost anacron[2099]: Normal exit (1 jobs run) My up to date FC5 laptop does NOT show this behaviour! I can't discover any differences in the cron config files on the desktop and the laptop. Can anybody explain what is happening? Alexander